WAY too long since I've posted.
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With the Baseball Hall of Fame announcing that it is considering players from the Negro leagues and before for enshrinement, New Jersey may see itself represented further in Cooperstown. Among the Negro leaguers are one-time Newark Eagle William Bell Sr., former manager of the Newark Dodgers and Eagles Dick Lundy, Eagles manager Raleigh "Biz" Mackey, Eagles co-owner Effa Manley, and Eagles player and manager George Suttles.
A partial and by-no-means complete (as far as I can tell) list of Hall of Famers with Jersey ties include:
Those born here
Goose Goslin
Billy Hamilton
Joe Medwick
Those who died here
Dan Brouthers
Larry Doby
Harry Wright
Those who played here
Yogi Berra (Newark Bears)
Monte Irvin (Newark Eagles)
Ray Dandridge (Newark Eagles)
Leon Day (Newark Eagles)
Willie Wells (Newark Eagles)
I'm hoping to do more research on the history of New Jersey baseball, but I've got so many other various little side projects like that, I don't know when I'm going to get to it. Perhaps once I become independently wealthy and no longer have to work a regular job.Labels: baseball history, Hall of Fame, Negro leagues, New Jersey, Yogi Berra